Job Title: Business Analyst - Regulatory Reporting and Finance
Location: Hong Kong
Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Contract - 12 Months
On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site
Who We Are
Robert Walters is the worlds most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the worlds top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one our client which is the is a French multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It has a presence in 65 countries, with close to 190,000 employees. It is the largest banking group in Europe, and the ninth-largest banking group in the world (by assets). It was ranked as the 33rd largest public company in the world.
The Role
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst - Regulatory Reporting and Finance in the Banking .
This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a global team, providing top-tier service to existing and prospective clients while expanding the business on a product and global level.
The successful candidate will be responsible for acquiring new clients, managing existing relationships, and contributing to the company's mission of becoming a Top Clearer worldwide in commodity markets.
Position Purpose:
APAC F&RS is dedicated to the design, build, implementation, and business support of IT solutions to service the needs of FINANCE and RISK functions, achieved by retaining highly skilled, functional and technical experts that work in active, continuous collaboration.
Our team, APAC F&RS Local Regulatory Reporting Project, and Solution, aims to strengthen the regulatory reporting platform of all APAC locations, by leveraging the regional knowledge (data management, reporting tools, and regulatory practices) to mitigate local regulatory risk in cost efficient manner.
To fulfil the dynamic regulatory requirements, the team has grown to have around 40 members. We are constituted of diversified profiles in building the synergy; Software engineer, business analyst, data manager & project manager are worked closely with collaborative & innovative culture, supported by the latest technology and management approach.
The in-house platform, Flexel, is a highly flexible and user-friendly Regulatory Reporting Platform, supporting 700+ Finance and Operations regulatory reports across 9 countries. The wide spectrum of reports include but not limited to - Balance Sheet, P&L, Large Exposure, Granular Data Repository, BASEL III reporting (e.g. LCR) and that makes up the massive user community.
Key responsibilities:
Regional Regulatory Reporting Project:
- To gather complex accounting/ business requirement and able to articulate in clear manner
- To perform in-depth data analysis to support the business case. Challenge requirements for a more rational effort spending
- Keep track of long-term benefits of solutions put designed and rolled out
- To keep the design documentation and data dictionary up to date
- To perform/support system testing (e.g. SIT & UAT)
- To prepare system documentation (e.g. technical/ function spec, user guide)
- To automate the generation of local regulatory reporting process by analysing, configuring and developing the regional regulatory reporting application for automating local regulatory reports
- To provide level 3 business support to the banks regulatory reporting applications and resolve production incident and user queries timely.
Process Reengineering and Platform Development:
- To perform data analysis, data modelling & process automation
- To contribute on data transformation, system module design & development
Assist to Project Management :
- Maintain the projects documentation
- Ensure regular and efficient communication within the project team and to the stakeholders
- Coordinate the contributions from the various parties to ensure the planning is followed
- Ensure escalations are made timely to avoid unnecessary time/budget slippage
- Maintain the projects documentation
- Host the end user workshop and project steering committee.
Requirements/ Qualifications:
- Degree in Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or any other related subjects
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Banking or Financial Industry, preferably in Finance / Risk / IT area with regulatory/ financial reporting exposure; more experience would be considered as senior role.
- Knowledge of banking regulations, Basel III/IV, IFRS 9, and related compliance frameworks
- Solid backgrounds in banking project with a good understanding of accounting, banking product and front to back system flow.
- Experiences in project management, data analysis, system implementation project
- Proven hands-on experience on technical tools for functional investigation, advanced excel / SQL / Python / Alteryx or any other data transformation tool and best practices associated.
- Quick learner, self-initiative, and good team player
- Sense of ownership to tasks assigned and commitment to deadlines under pressure
- Analytical, lateral thinker, attentive to details and result-oriented person
- Fluency in English (verbal/written) and with good communication & interpersonal skills
- Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills
This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organisations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.